[Olsr-users] Mesh network

[Henning Rogge]

Hi,

based on your questions I added some more text to the coming OLSR
wiki... can you have a look if you think they are
useful/understandable?

http://www.olsr.org/mediawiki/index.php/Troubleshooting
http://www.olsr.org/mediawiki/index.php/OLSR_networks

Henning Rogge

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Sahana k.srinivas
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Okay! Will check it out. And let you know what happens. Thank you !
>
>
> Regards,
> Sahana
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Henning Rogge <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Sahana k.srinivas
>> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>> > The client can ping the router to which it is connected but the router
>> > cannot ping its client.
>>
>> Good... I expected it to work, it was just the easiest thing to test. ;)
>>
>> > No, I did not set the IP address as HNA in olsrd. Will do that and check
>> > the
>> > results.
>>
>> Do so... without the HNA the mesh routers will not know about the
>> IP/prefix of the attached clients of the other routers!
>>
>> > And the 3rd point, Sorry I dint get you! Should a route be set? Or does
>> > a
>> > default route exist?
>>
>> You need a route from the client to their local router to reach the
>> rest of the mesh.
>>
>> The easiest option is a default route, often distributed via DHCP...
>> but in theory it would be enough to have a route that is "wide" enough
>> to contain all nodes in the mesh and attached to the mesh.
>>
>> Default route does not work if one of your clients has normal internet
>> access (as an example).
>>
>> Henning Rogge
>
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